W. C. A. B., ET AL. v. NEVILLE CHEMICAL, ET AL.

No. 1678 C.D. 1974.

20 Pa.Commw. 462 (1975)

Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Smittie J. Brown v. Neville Chemical Company and American Mutual Insurance Companies, Insurance Carrier, Appellants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

July 25, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert Grigsby, with him Ralph A. Davies and Thomson, Rhodes & Grigsby, for appellants.

Smittie J. Brown, appellee, for himself.

James N. Diefenderfer, for appellee, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board.

Thomas W. Scott, with him John D. Killian and Killian & Gephart, for amicus curiae, Life Fellowship of Pennsylvania.

Argued May 9, 1975, before Judges KRAMER, MENCER and ROGERS, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE ROGERS, July 25, 1975:

This case is companion to Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Overmyer Mold Company, 20 Pa.Commw. 342, 342 A.2d 439 (1975). Here, too, pursuant to Section 306(f) of the Workmen's Compensation Act, Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. § 531, the employer designated five physicians for treatment of injured employes. The referee found on substantial competent evidence that the instant claimant...

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